[4], CLXX [i.e. CLXII] leaves : 32 cm (fol.)

Title from title page on leaf A1 recto

Imprint derived from colophon (z6 recto): Opus de claris selectisq[ue] plurimis mulieribus a fratre Ia[cobo]. philippo Bergomense editum explicit : maxi[m] cu[m] diligentia reuisu[m] & castigatu[m]. per . Reueren[dum] sacre theologie doctore[m] Magistru[m] Albertu[m] de place[n]tia: & fr[atr]em Augustinu[m] de Casali maiori eiusde[m] facultatis Baccalariu[m] ordinis mi[n]or[um]. Ferrarie i[m]pressu[m]. Opera & i[m]pensa Magistri Laurentij de rubeis de Valentia. tertio kal[endas]. maias. anno salutis n[ost]re .M.cccclxxxxvij. Religioso Inuictis[simo].q[ue] p[ri]ncipe : Diuo Hercule : Duce secundo : Ferrarie[n]sibus legiptime Imperante

Edited by Albertus de Placentia and Augustinus de Casali Maiori

Caption at the beginning of the prologue on leaf A2r exists in two states. In one state, the caption title is printed on three lines; in another state, the final word ("Prologus.") is printed separately in a fourth line

Signatures: A⁴ a-e⁸ f⁶ g-p⁸ q-x⁶·⁸ y-z⁶.

Chancery folio; a3 recto: 45 lines plus successive lines with foliation and headlines, 237 (244, 248) x 145 mm; types: 105G (text), 81G mixed with sorts from 63G (marginalia, tables); 105R (capitals only, foliations); printed marginalia, woodcut initials and printed Lombards; woodcut vignettes and woodcut borders, xylographic title page

Woodcuts: title (fol. A1 recto), full architectural border (A1 verso, repeated a1 verso), illustration of author presenting his work to Beatrice of Aragon (A1 verso), eight vignettes representing the Life of the Virgin Mary (a1 verso), full architectural border and initial inhabited by the Virgin and Child (a2 recto), 172 vignettes, from 56 blocks, and decorated initials throughout, and printer's device (z6 recto)

Title page, A1 recto -- woodcut illustration and border, dated 1493, A1 verso -- Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo. [Prologue dedicated to] Beatrix de Aragona, Queen of Hungary, A2 recto-A3 verso -- Table of contents, A4 recto-verso -- Table of subjects, a1 recto -- woodcut illustration and border, dated 1493, a1 verso -- Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo. De claris mulieribus, edited by Albertus de Placentia and Augustinus de Casali Maiori, a2 recto-z5 verso -- colophon, z6 recto -- printer's register and device, z6 recto

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.69 FOLIO has four-line caption title on A2 recto. Leaf dimensions 311 x 204 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.69 FOLIO with leather bookplates of Herschel V. Jones and of Cortlandt F. Bishop; booklabel of Aldenham Abbey and booklabel of Tempsford Hall, with shelfmark "C3 Study" (William Stuart (1798-1874), then inherited by his son, William Stuart (1825-1893)); bookplate of William Mitchell ("Arma Gulielmi Mitchell"). Occasional early underlining and annotation (see s2 recto). Purchased in May, 1938.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.69 FOLIO bound in 19th-century blue goatskin panelled in gilt, gilt armorial super-ex-libris of William Stuart (1798-1874) with motto "Nobilis Ira" on upper cover. All text block edges gilt.

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